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<H1>[Mageia-dev] 2nd Draft of a Letter to the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC).</H1>
<B>andre999</B>
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<PRE>Shlomi Fish a écrit :
><i> Hi all,
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I'm including here a new draft of a letter we are planning to send to the
</I>><i> Software Freedom Law Center ( SFLC- <A HREF="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/">http://www.softwarefreedom.org/</A> ) about
</I>><i> faac vs. cinelerra. (see the last meeting at
</I>><i> <A HREF="http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-dev/2012/mageia-dev.2012-11-06-20.09.html">http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-dev/2012/mageia-dev.2012-11-06-20.09.html</A> for
</I>><i> more information). Note that the SFLC does not charge for its advice (but
</I>><i> accepts donations).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Any comments will be welcome.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I think the only change is that I changed the opening line to "Dear Sir/Madam".
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Regards,
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Shlomi Fish
</I>><i>
</I>><i> --------------
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Dear Sir/Madam,
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I am writing you this letter on behalf of Mageia ( <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/en/">https://www.mageia.org/en/</A>
</I>><i> ), which is a community-developed, operating system, based on the
</I>><i> GNU/Linux system and with a free-and-open-source (FOSS) core. We would like to
</I>><i> ask, whether and how we can distribute pre-built packages of a GPLed program
</I>><i> (in our case, the video editor cinelerra) after it was linked to a library
</I>><i> with some proprietary and non-GPLed code (in our case, faac).
</I>><i>
</I>><i> The longer story is that there has been some demand for including faac
</I>><i> ( <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/faac/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/faac/</A> - the Freeware Advance Audio Coder),
</I>><i> which is both non-free in part and patent encumbered, in our distribution,
</I>><i> and to prepare versions of the appropriate packages for which it is an
</I>><i> optional dependency. These packages, such as cinelerra (
</I>><i> <A HREF="http://cinelerra.org/">http://cinelerra.org/</A> - a video editor), are licenced under
</I>><i> the GPL, which restricts which code its distributed binaries may be legally
</I>><i> linked to.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> So our question is: assuming we package faac as a package, can we still
</I>><i> provide pre-made and binary packages of GPLed programs that use it?
</I>><i>
</I>><i> We would appreciate any definitive legal insights on the matter.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Sincerely yours,
</I>><i>
</I>><i> — Shlomi Fish, on behalf of the Mageia development team.
</I>><i>
</I>
Wouldn't it be acceptable if the GPL code were *optionally* linked to
non-GPL code, that is linked to the non-GPL code iff it were available ?
(that is, if installed)
We could pose that specific question as well.
Just an idea ...
--
André
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